Releases/Default Switch

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The User Experience Team and other Wikimedians are currently in Phase V and getting ready to roll-out the default interface called "Vector" along with other usability improvements to the remaining Wikimedia projects.

Phase V Deployment

Projects will be switched regardless of localization status, so this is a critical moment to provide missing localizations. We will not switch projects with critical functionality breakage, so please report such breakage as soon as possible.

In order to help with communication, if you're an English speaker, please join the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list and introduce yourself. We'll use this list as an interface between the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia languages/projects.

Notes

↑ 1.01.1It's important that these default changes are widely announced on the Foundation blog, local village pumps, local news mediums, chapter blogs/press releases, social media outlets, and many other places. Please list the announcement venues here.

↑ 3.03.1CentralNotice links to this page, so this page must also be enabled by June 6.

↑ 4.04.1"User Experience Ambassadors" – The collaboration with the translation community is crucial to make sure that support materials, such as announcements, FAQ, feedback page, site notice, and OTRS templates, are available in local languages, but it is also important that there are group of folks from the each language community who can make sure that announcements are reaching to the language community and the feedback is escalated back to the user experience team before and after the release. These advocates will be "user experience ambassadors" who will help coordinate the translation of support materials in the local language, help communicate information about "the switch", and help escalate feedback back to the Usability team. If you're interested in volunteering, see the talk page!